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The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science is a peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal devoted to the study of
cognition and the publishing of relevant papers in English or in Russian.

All articles are published under a Creative Commons
license, ensuring that authors retain their copyright but at the same time allowing free
distribution of the papers. There is no publication fee for authors.

The journal aims to inspire communication between researchers from
different scientific disciplines who share an interest in the study of
cognition, and provides an outlet for Russian cognitive scientists to
publish their results in English, which is broadly accepted as a language
of international communication.

Russian-speaking authors who feel that they are ready write a paper in
English are hereby provided an option for a guided start in cooperation
with Russian reviewers and editors.

The journal publishes original empirical research and review articles
covering a wide range of topics in cognitive
science — the constellation of scientific disciplines that involve study of mechanisms underlying
cognition, which may be defined as the acquisition, maintenance,
transformation and usage of knowledge by living and artificial systems.

Besides basic research articles, the journal publishes papers devoted
to the applications of cognitive science in various fields of science and
technology, including artificial intelligence, educational technologies,
usability and cognitive design, human-computer interfaces and
brain-computer interfaces. The editors also consider research in related
scientific areas, such as cognitive approaches to emotions, motivation and
personality, as well as social neuroscience.

The journal publishes the following types of manuscripts:

short empirical research notes (experimental and other empirical
research) in English (approximately 7,000 — 15,000 characters) or Russian
(10,000 — 20,000 characters);

full research papers incorporating empirical (experimental and other)
findings or modeling data, in Russian or English (up to 70,000
characters);

methodological papers that describe new empirical (experimental) or
modeling methods, in Russian or English (usually up to 40,000
characters);

reviews in Russian or English (up to 70,000 characters);

English translations of conference papers originally published in
Russian or papers in English summarizing research previously published by
the same authors in Russian;

conference summaries and other news articles that describe relevant
ongoing or recent academic events, in Russian or English (up to 10,000
characters); please contact the Editor-in-Chief before submitting; and

discussions (opinion and commentary papers) in English or Russian (up
to 10,000 characters).

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More detailed manuscript preparation guidelines can be found in the
section "For Authors".